Category: 3. Middle East

Speaking to reporters from the Oval Office, Donald Trump focused on air strikes in Yemen rather than Signal chat leaks.

United States President Donald Trump has downplayed a recent Signal chat leak as a “witch hunt” and said, without evidence,…

Standing on a Hawaii runway, United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told a reporter on March 24, “Nobody was texting war plans, and that’s all I have to say about that.” The next day, he repeated the statement.

The Trump…

Trump says he will be willing to extend TikTok sale deadline in exchange for trade concessions.

United States President Donald Trump says he would be willing to reduce tariff rates on China to secure a deal with TikTok’s Chinese parent company…

The United States has removed multimillion-dollar bounties on leaders of Afghanistan’s feared Haqqani militant network, including the current Taliban interior minister, the State Department and the Taliban government said.

The Haqqani network was…

It had to be spam. That’s what 37-year-old Ranjani Srinivasan thought when she first received an email from the United States consulate in Chennai, the southern Indian city where the Columbia University PhD candidate is from.

The email, which…

Harare, Zimbabwe – Every morning, Dumisani Ngara* gets up at dawn to catch a 6:30am bus to work at Zimbabwe’s Ministry of National Housing and Social Amenities. The government-provided bus is free for civil servants in Harare, and on his $250…

Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip, Palestine – Listening to the radio a few days ago outside the tent he now has to call home, 77-year-old Mohammed al-Nabahin heard about an Israeli plan to establish a “voluntary” migration office for Palestinians…

Firefighters are struggling to contain the wildfires, which continue to grow rapidly in size, fuelled by strong winds and dry conditions.

South Korean authorities have declared ongoing wildfires the worst to ever hit the country, as the death toll…

Prime Minister Albanese’s Labor Party has introduced new tax cuts in advance of general election due before May 17.

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he plans to call a national election “imminently” as the May 17 deadline…